Right, just like how penicillin and the polio vaccine were developed in the middle of war. Remember when a war caused Lister to advocate for anti-septic methods in surgery? Or the drug cocktail that essentially controls HIV - that was developed by a doctor in a POW camp, right?

He was a veteran pilot with an iron sense of right and wrong;

And yet they made the Western Conference Finals last year.

And yet arguing against conventional wisdom represents 95% of the article output from the analytic community - “You thought X was good at Y, but really he’s not. Here’s the equation that proves it.”

So, you don’t think it matters at all, for example, whether a team won because they hit an unsustainably high number of contested mid range jumpers?

I agree mostly, but what happened to Jordan when the turnaround wasn’t falling? Did he become a non-scoring defensive liability?

Or they are the same team but their opponents can (1) keep their best players on the court longer because of time off between playoff games and (2) have more than 8 hours to prepare for GSW, unlike the regular season.

Because the great players had plans B and C.

During the regular season teams only have a day or two to prepare for a new squad. The best players play limited minutes, meaning that a unique team with a deep bench can rack up a ton of wins.

And also, those examples were close - clearly he flails to try and create contact, a long standing tactic going through Reggie Miller to Ginobili to Wade...etc. - but they don’t really look like the swinging of the leg after the momentum is over right into a guy’s nards, like you see with Adams.

My feeling is that now that the league has outlawed any sort of on-court justice from other players, they have to suspend Green. Either you turn your head while Adams or some other enforcer gets their revenge or you make the consequence severe enough to deter that from happening.

Missing: Both teams play well; one wins.

Pilot/episode 1 is rough. The timing is weird, it doesn’t flow well. This is true of a lot of pilots. The subsequent episodes are better.

Yeah, I agree with that. Definitely don’t want to excuse the poor choices of Democrats, and part of the reason I support Bernie staying in the race through the convention - with the caveat that tonal and strategic changes are made - is to make exactly that point: people will get out to vote for real progressive ideas.

Sure, but that cuts both ways. Bernie has shown that sufficient money can be raised in small donations to run a national campaign. That + hard work can get you more than enough for a state Senate race.

I agree with most of that, but as we saw from the failure of Walker, Bush, and the other candidates with a shitton of money behind them, the important thing is translating dollars into votes.

I agree with the OP:

Aiming that frantic hysteria at a woman applying the clear rules fairly (Hillary had people disqualified, as well, just not as many) is as stupid as aiming disgruntled, desperate hysteria at death panels. Just because things aren’t going great does not mean lashing out randomly is a good idea.

I mean, a comet could land on Hillary’s head and then Bernie would win going away.

Give me a list of important political movements in American history that have worked that way.